In honor of the big series coming up the next three days--Red Sox vs. Phillies, I figured today is a good day to highlight the Red Sox fan pack I received. As much as I want to say the fan pack sucked, it didn't. It rivaled and maybe even beat the Dodgers fan pack I received.
The Red Sox did it right. To start off, I got a handwritten letter thanking me for being a fan. Nice because people don't write handwritten letters anymore, they email. I know my handwriting has gone down the tubes over the years due to typing so much and not writing.
The proverbial pocket schedule found its way into the envelope, which was large and manila and stamped with a gigantic Red Sox stamp.
Two profile card things, one being Wally, the mascot. I like mascot cards so I am cool with this.
A FULL SIZED calendar! The Red Sox sent a full sized 2011 calendar. Pretty nice, but I have no use for it.
A nice Sox sticker and maybe the coolest thing I've received so far: dirt from Fenway. Nice gesture to add that piece of nostalgia.
Very nice fan pack from the Red Sox, but go Phillies!
I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't just a bit nervous about this series coming up, mainly because of all the hype that will be surrounding it, and the fact that the Phillies are not knocking the cover off the ball but the Red Sox seem to be. You have what are arguably two of the top five teams in baseball playing each other, and the speculation that this might be an October match-up is already out there in the media. I don't think this series will make or break either team, but in the area of public opinion it might. I think what we can surely bet on is that we will see some really good baseball being played by really good baseball players at Citizen's Bank Park the next three days.
How do you think this series will play out? Will one team sweep the other? We are looking at Beckett/Lee, Lackey/Worley, and Lester/Hamels. Should be fun!
I'm guessing the Sox-Phils series has a little more hype that the Sox@Astros series which follows it and I'll be attending. The 'Stros are so pathetic and attendance so lame that it'll be much more of a Red Sox home game than it was a few years back when they came through Houston. That was a much anticipated madhouse. This year there is zero build-up.
ReplyDeleteThey're still giving out dirt? Nice. Nice addition they put in on the calendar this year. Looks like it's time for my 2011 request.
ReplyDeleteRed Sox will win the series against the Phils either 2/3 or a sweep. We don't have to face Doc who kills us.
I got mine yesterday. Hell would still probably have to freeze over before I became a Sox fan, but I gotta say, they do take terrific care of the folks who are their fans. No calendar for me, but I got one of those red rubber bracelets with "Red Sox Nation" written on it, and I got a Hall Of Fame postcard of Jim Rice (!). I also got Youk instead of Pedroia, but that's for the best, really.
ReplyDeleteYours and other folks' posts about fan packs got me off my duff to ask all the teams for one via email, so thanks for your part in that. Alex Hipolito has a nice one-stop listing of all the contact links on his site.
So far, I've gotten packages from the Diamondbacks (very slick booklet thingy), A's (An assortment of whatever was in the publicist's bottom drawer, I think, but a cool one; somehow, a 2008 Emil Brown card made it in there!), the Sox one, and the Indians, already making my "good" list once this week by calling up Lonnie Chisenhall just as I needed a 3B for one of my fantasy teams, emailed me yesterday and promised a package in the next week or so.
I also got some "you need to send us snail mail" replies (Yankees, Cubs, Phillies, Mariners), an out-of-office reply from the Rockies, a PDF from the Giants and an email from the Padres that suggests that they may have forgotten to attach their PDF. ;)
Actually, nope, my bad! The PDF from the Padres was hiding in the thread somewhere. Went looking again, and somehow, it ended up in the quoted part of the email. Odd.
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